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Camera <-> Camcorder Zoom Weirdness

Going to try to explain this... When I'm using the stock Camera app, the picture is normal. But when I switch to Camcorder, it seems to be automatically zoomed in quite a bit. And when I try to zoom out, it says that since I'm recording in HD, zoom functions are not available.
This is kind of annoying because now I have to step back probably 5 feet to fill the same frame of when I was taking photos.
Is this normal for everyone else too? Or do I have some weird glitch on my unrooted and pure stock ROM?

Yep, mine does it too (stock rom). It only does that in FullHD resolution. I guess the only use middle part of the sensor to read the data to achieve greater speeds, and thus it's gonna be a hardware limitation.
Who need HD anyway ? The lens hardly catch with it. I record 720x480 and I'm very pleased with teh quality.

Change the video recording resolution in the settings pane to 1280x720 and that should fix your problem.

hank00k said:
Change the video recording resolution in the settings pane to 1280x720 and that should fix your problem.
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Yeah I noticed that.
But that doesn't make sense. In photo mode, same resolution as video mode but in video mode it's zoomed in. Like Dr. Sid said, it seems that it uses a smaller section of the image sensor to capture video. Which again doesn't make sense. Weird.

This is definetly a speed optimization - scaling down the whole resolution of camera sensor from 3264*2448 -> 1080p is much more expensive operation than just cropping the central pixels, i assume someone at samsung was VERY lazy to have done the camcorder mode in such a lame way, it's still ok for recording outside scenes but useless for in-room recording.

I find this quite annoying also. At first I was wondering if it is a ROM glitch or something, since some of the people here stated that even in stock ROM it is present also.
I hope there is some kind of patch to this, full HD recording is really awesome and I hate to see the 'zoomed' effect.

Yeah noticed the same thing just last night.. Seems to also affect the camera's ability to focus properly in video capture mode as well... Shame on them, I wish I had noticed this sooner.

[Q] Video Camera App with Manual focus?

Is it possible in the future that G2 will have a manual focus in video? I used Focal but it FC always. :/

Any luck finding manual focus video app yet?
I too have been looking for this. The hunting autofocus on video is frustrating. I LOVE the manual focus on the still camera. Could there be a tweak somewhere in the configuration files that brings this option over to the video camera? If you've found the answer to your question let us know.

[Q] HDR Time Lapse?

Hi! I´ve been searching alot for this and hope somone can help
Is it possible to capture an HDR time lapse? When i push the button for recording the screen is pushing the lightning to normal mode.
Also the finished video is no hdr even when hdr is acitve.
Anyone know why? I can capture hdr pictures but not in timelapse. That doesn´t make sense to me

how to shoot 4k video? confused!

I've been using the stock camera app which is updated on my 6P and I can't figure out how to get it to shoot 4k video. Anyone else have any issues? I made sure that the video is set to shoot 4k but when I do take a video it only shoots in 360p resolution? Not sure what I am doing wrong. I really don't like the google camera app.
I've tried shooting in portrait and landscape mode and changed all the settings around but still can't figure it out.

No issues here. Just tested and set to UHD 4K. It produced a 4K video. Stock Camera.

Hmmm, not sure what I am doing wrong then? Can I ask what settings you are using? thanks!

I'm actually perplexed as to how you manage to shoot in 360p, as the lowest option I have is 720p.

TheReverend210 said:
I'm actually perplexed as to how you manage to shoot in 360p, as the lowest option I have is 720p.
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This! I also like tacos.

tzmueller said:
I've been using the stock camera app which is updated on my 6P and I can't figure out how to get it to shoot 4k video. Anyone else have any issues? I made sure that the video is set to shoot 4k but when I do take a video it only shoots in 360p resolution? Not sure what I am doing wrong. I really don't like the google camera app.
I've tried shooting in portrait and landscape mode and changed all the settings around but still can't figure it out.
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What is reporting 360p resolution? Sounds like YouTube. If so, have you tried changing the quality setting?
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tzmueller said:
I've been using the stock camera app which is updated on my 6P and I can't figure out how to get it to shoot 4k video. Anyone else have any issues? I made sure that the video is set to shoot 4k but when I do take a video it only shoots in 360p resolution? Not sure what I am doing wrong. I really don't like the google camera app.
I've tried shooting in portrait and landscape mode and changed all the settings around but still can't figure it out.
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> Open stock camera app
> Push the 3 bar menu in the upper left hand corner
> Select 'Settings'
> Select 'Resolution & Quality'
> Video Sub-Header
> Back Camera > Select 'UHD 4K'
That should be all; where are you getting 360p from? Shoot a video and then look at the properties, it should display the H x L pixels, which will tell you the resolution.

RAW Photo mode.

The option for RAW photos is greyed out in the camera app settings. Anyone know how to enable it? I downloaded Snapseed, a Google app that allows you to see RAW photos and nothing.

Change the camera to pro mode.

Duh. Why didn't I think of that??? ??? thanks